Week in review micro edition: Assassin’s Creed 3: Black Flag “Pirate’s Life on the High Seas” trailer.

Vic B'Stard
The calm before the storm

I’ve spent the last week clearing up a few gaming loose ends with the likes of Far Cry 3, SSX and Dishonored.

But now is the time to stop looking back, it’s time to look forward and brace ourselves for the gaming onslaught ahead.

With the release of two new consoles heralding the next generation of gaming platforms as well as developers wringing the last ounces of power from the current generation, it going to be an awesome time to be a gamer. Continue reading Week in review micro edition: Assassin’s Creed 3: Black Flag “Pirate’s Life on the High Seas” trailer.

The Last of Us Playstation 3 Review

The Last of Us Review
Not bearded Nathan Drake and not Ellen Page in The Last of Us

With the world in chaos and some nefarious fungus the cause of the zombie apocalypse, Grant finds himself knee-deep in The Last Of Us. Join him in this story driven survival horror meets action-adventure game as it takes him on a captivating journey in a very broken world.

The Last of Us is set in a post-apocalyptic America. A fungus that affects people’s minds and causes them to go into a crazed zombie-like state has wiped out most of civilization. Many of the survivors of this human-infecting fungus have taken refuge in military controlled quarantine zones where strict martial law is set on the residents. A rebel group known as the Fireflies have arisen to try and free the people from this control. Outside of these zones there are small pockets of people fighting for survival on their own. Continue reading The Last of Us Playstation 3 Review

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition PC review

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition PC review
Say you want an evolution

Guest reviewer Grant Cheetham returns to State of Play bringing us the up to speed with Ubisoft’s side-scrolling motorcycle stunt game.

Enjoy.

Trials Evolution : Gold Edition brings the highly popular 2012 Xbox Live Arcade Trials Evolution along with the previous entry, Trials HD, to PC. Developed by RedLynx, this 2.5D platform racing game bring to the market much of what is missing from many AAA titles today, a simple and fun challenging experience. The game excels at what it is, but some aspects still fall short of what it could be. Continue reading Trials Evolution: Gold Edition PC review

Remember Me Xbox 360 review

Remember Me Xbox 360 reviewAccording to DONTNOD, the French developer of Capcom’s Remember Me, in the future memories will be recorded. Once upon a time, such a concept would once have been exclusively in the realms of high-brow science fiction. But in a world where everybody carries a camera phone and most of us are always connected via the internet, it is only a matter of time before someone merges the technological hardware with our wetware.

Remember Me is set in the Neo-Paris of 2084. It’s a futuristic setting in a city that combines the old-world of the French capital (watch out for the Eiffel Tower), with a Blade Runner-ish dystopian look; but with less rain and more blue sky. Continue reading Remember Me Xbox 360 review

Comic-book review: The Massive

Comic-book review: The Massive
Post-apocalyptic environmentalists

I’ve just read through the first twelve issues of The Massive from Dark Horse Comics. I picked them up on a whim, the post-apocalyptic adventure-at-sea premise pressing all the right button for me.

The book began as a three-part series in the pages of Dark Horse Presents, a book whose alumni inclused Frank Millar’s Sin City. Basically the world has gone to shit, with literally every type of environmental cataclysm occurring simultaneously; like the Earth just put its foot down and said enough is enough. Continue reading Comic-book review: The Massive

Why we should thank Microsoft for Xbox One

The future today?

Microsoft’s controversial move towards an internet controlled, digital-based DRM afflicted games marketplace has cause some debate here at Vicbstard.com.

For over a week Grant and myself have been debating the merits and pitfalls of Microsoft’s Xbox One strategy. Whilst I must profess to being rather the fan of Microsoft’s consoles, my Xbox One pre-order being already in the bag, I don’t quite share Grant’s optimism for an always on digital future.

Regardless of my misgivings, Grant, in his article, below, puts forward a rather convincing case for Microsoft’s Xbox One policies. Continue reading Why we should thank Microsoft for Xbox One

Week in review: E3 Round-up Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Ubisoft and EA media briefing videos

E3 2013 Round-up
E3 2013 Round-up

This is the first E3 that I’ve not actually followed ‘as it happened’. With the launch of two consoles and the amount of media coverage I wasn’t missing out by not staying up all night to watch a few glitzy presentations. Besides, my Twitter feed was full of media peeps all tweeting exactly the same thing.

Over the last few days I’ve been slowly going through the various E3 press show videos that are available on YouTube. I’ve embedded a few below. Continue reading Week in review: E3 Round-up Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Ubisoft and EA media briefing videos

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